The similarities between dutch rap and reggeaton
What we see:
Here the similarity between the WOP album, made by the dutch artist Lil
Kleine (dutch rap) is plotted together with the spotify list of
Reggeaton songs, made in 2024. This hierarchical cluster of songs shows
the similarity between different songs. This similarity is based on a
lot of different spotify features matched together. It is very
interesting that it does not look like all the dutch rap songs cluster
together and differ a lot from the reggeaton ones. You can actually see
that some of the songs from the WOP album of Lil Kleine are more similar
to a reggeaton song then to others of the same album. For example the
song 1, 2, 3 from Lil Kleine and Ronnie Flex and the song
Me Porto Bonito turn out to be somewhat similar.These songs
appear to be way more similar then 1, 2, 3 and Niet omdat
het moet, even though both songs are from two artists and the same
album made by Lil Kleine.
Similar features: Dutch rap vs Reggeaton
| What we see: |
| Here we see the same as on the last page, only then a heatmap of the hierarchical clusterings, this way it is immediately visible which features are different for certain songs. The clear yellow and clear dark blue spots show songs that are standing out in that certain field. It is also visible that for these songs energy and loudness are closely related, just as accousticness and speechiness. |
| ### Keys throughout the song: Europapa |
What we see: Here we can see how the song Europapa from Joost Klein changes keys throughout the song. It is visible that the song starts in a B minor and changes to a C# minor, which stays the main key.
Tempo sd vs tempo mean: 2 albums of lauv
What we see: In this plot the tempo standard
deviation is shown against the mean tempo for two albums of the same
artist, Lauv. It compares the album How I am feeling from
2020 and the album `I met you when I was 18´ from 2018. Also the
duration of the songs are visible.
Study Objectives
A Comparative Study of Spotify Wrapped Playlists and Daily Mixes
For this research I will be comping my personalized music library, wrapped music from 2023, with Spotify’s daily mixes to assess the quality of Spotify’s playlists. The daily mixes are made by spotify, based on my previous listening behaviour. I want to explore two research questions. Firstly, I want to see how closely my 2023 wrapped music matches the songs in Spotify’s playlists. Secondly, I’m investigating whether Spotify organizes its playlists logically by grouping similar music together or if they vary widely. This will be done by comparing the daily mixes with each other. Additionally, I’m interested in whether Spotify only includes music from my most-listened genres or if they include songs outside of my usual preferences. My wrapped music contains mostly English pop music, but also has the occasional rock/rap and dutch songs. It contains 100 songs. Spotify provides six daily mixes, which all contain 50 songs and differ from each other in artists. The comparison of my wrapped and the daily mixes is intriguing because Spotify’s algorithms are based on my typical listening habits. Although the daily mixes are influenced by all my listening behaviors, and not only by the behaviour in 2023, I believe it’s still a valid comparison since my music taste hasn’t changed much since last year. There are some songs in my wrapped that are in a different style then the others, one example is the song Mansion by NF, which could be categorized as hiphop. I want to explore how these outliers are represented in the daily mixes.
How similar are the wrapped and dailymixes? (Danceability vs Energy)
What we see:
In this plot you can see the enenrgy against the danceability of both the wrapped and the dailymix1 dataset. It is visible that the range of danceability and energy of both playlists are very different from each other. It is interesting to compare this to see how much the music of the dailymix relates to the kind of music in the wrapped playlist. However this is just one of the daily mixes, for further analysis it would be interesting to look at the result of several daily mixes.
Chromachart: Wings by Lina Meike
What we see:
In the picture we can see the chromagram of the song Wings by Lina Meike. This is a song played by a friend of mine.
Self Similarity matrix: Eyes closed by Ed Sheeran
What we see:
Tbh I have a lot of difficulties making sense of this plot and I don’t really understand what the use of it is, so if anyone can help in the feedback I would be very greatfull!
Timbre Similarity matrix: Uncharted by Kensington
What we see: Here we can see the timbre throughout the song Uncharted by Kensington. The music switches from singing with a guitar to using background singers, drums and other instruments. You can clearly see that the song has a build up in instruments. For the first part only one voice and the guitar is audible, after that the song keeps building up with adding drums and background voices. At some point the timbre changes again (see the yellow lines at 3/4 of the song). In the music only a voice is audible at this part, after that the other instruments and background voices start playing. In the end the song is calming down with only a guitar and main voice.